Nah, OT has been a blight that has hated everyone for far too long now not to be called.Originally Posted by Don
Anyway, who the fuck are you to be making demands? Shitebag
Nah, OT has been a blight that has hated everyone for far too long now not to be called.
Anyway, who the fuck are you to be making demands? Shitebag
Not the MD lol. The European agent usually gives me Ł100 a month from his commission for my contribution to it.
Have you started midweek drinking ffs? Friday Giggles need not be extended.
Ah the same old tune. I suppose it can’t get old a second time around.
You’re a Dyson in reverse. Complete spoofbox.
https://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/searc...earchid=101014
I'm bigger than a Dyson. Massive.
You think being bigger than a hoover makes you massive?
This is an insane accusation from you, especially after I left you alone to be embarrassingly Irish in the gig thread.
I also don't hate Shinners, but he bent over for Ashley time and time again.
Ashley? Nah, Bruce was my stupid hill to die on.
Did someone say Steve Bruce?
Good manager is Bruce. Did alright.
I've only done contact centres. Absolutely fucking love it mate. Easiest job in the world.Our call centre staff had a team meeting this morning so for 2 hours we had to fill in for them. Brutal. I don't know how people do this stuff as a job. 2 hours of people pissing and moaning while I call around trying to find out who they need to actually talk to.
I had a voicemail (I don't log in to the work phone system so all calls go straight to voicemail which get emailed to me as an mp3) the other day from a distressed old man having problems with his catheter. DELETE.
Also:
No point pretending, is there.
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I'm a twit
Government agreeing to come to the table within 12 hours of the first strike ending. Seems they've finally realised we/the BMA aren't messing about.
Just had my final showdown talks. The result is that I'm not doing Latin America anymore, I'm now going to carry on as I am, with a 2 year plan for future succession in Europe and the new sales director backing me for such.
It feels like I've won. Dunno if I actually have.
So you’ve kept your current job on your current salary and instead they are planning on how send you to Europe (presumably on similarly miserable terms at Latin America).
At least you’ve got your answer. They won’t be paying you more so you’ve got 2 years to confirm an exit strategy (although I’d suggest sooner).
How was the reaction? Were they fizzing?
You only win if you leave. Can guarantee that "succession plan" might as well be written on unicorn hide for all the relationship it has with actual reality
Your new mate will jump ship for greener pastures before you ever see that promotion, Jim.
You've won by not taking their pathetic job offer but I would take any "plan" for your future there with pinchiest pinch of salt.
I've won because I don't have to do the shitty job, I keep my work-life balance, they clearly want to keep me by whatever means necessary, and we went from a horrible tone of conversation last Wednesday to a miraculously positive one upon my next appearance in the office today. They were the ones pushing the future planning for Europe, I just said whatever happens in the future happens.
If you like the current state of affairs, then you did well.
If you're still there in two years time, I'm going to boot your front door in.
Save the cops doing it.
Yep. For all the drama he gives this thread, he does seem to like the bread and butter of the job. Increasingly being dragged out to mind a geriatric sex pest around the arse end of Paraguay, maybe not. If travel has to be on the menu, the least he can do is aim for locations more manageable.
I'd never admit it to the employer, but I'd love travelling around the arse of South America to hang out with lunatics all day. Plenty of people pay out of their own pocket to do that.
If he could actually spend time in those places, yes. But he's flying at 4am to work at 7am. It's not a holiday.
This is what it's quite hard to convince people (more so IRL than on here) who have never been on a work trip. Even when I was attending that wannabe drug dealer's party in Guayaquil, it was still work.
Even more reason to get coked out your skull.
What and miss a week's worth of Newsnight and the weekly bridge club session (or whatever you fucking gammons do with your spare time) for a measly Ł0.014 per minute?
'This'.
Been working on a “project” in the background for about 9 months.
Tested my theory last week and unleashed it when he had a problem with a compressor. The fucking thing worked like a charm and unlocked so much value. Somewhere between Ł500k-Ł1m a day for the next two weeks.
Properly good when something comes together and works.
Scampi and apple crumble for lunch today too. Jackpot.
You still alive jim, or have the tractor boys had you harvested?
I'm still alive. The Arab is not pleased with my decision. He thinks I should have taken their offer. He then inadvertently revealed that the commission rate they've put him on to go to Iraq in a flak jacket is, like, half of what everyone else was offered. Obviously he still thinks I'm the mug out of the two of us.
The apple falling very far from the tree on this occasion.
Doesn't he pretty much have to say yes due to his visa?
These are the mugs you’re competing with. Happy to undervalue themselves.
Yep, but even after I explained this to him he seems blissfully unaware of it.
Probably just has loads of money from his dad so doesn't care.
How bad is agency work? My mrs is on a decent wedge at her place but the culture has changed massively and I can tell it is making her miserable now. She's worked there for 10 years but it has been on the slide for a while and I think the straw that broke the camel's back is they've promoted the resident retard to be her department manager (no mention of the job being available just announced.). I have told her we can afford for her to take a pay cut but even then it seems hard finding suitable work at the moment. She had applied for train driver but didn't get past the weird 'personality' test after the initial sift.
The main problem is she has all experience and no formal qualifications and now it seems like you need a degree to write parking tickets, Blair's legacy.
It has pros and cons, but mostly cons. Weekly pay usually which I always liked, but you live life knowing that you can be let go at any second. Holiday has to be accrued at something like half a day per week worked. So you have to work for 3 months before you can have a week off (paid). And if you are working with non-temps you usually don't get any of the company perks they get (healthcare, staff discounts, etc).
On the plus side, it could lead to something permanent, depending on where she winds up working.
Not ideal then, she will just have to keep applying for stuff. I did suggest telling her employer that she needed a change of role and department which I do think they would consider but she doesn't think it would help.
Agency work got me in the door to a few places when I was younger. Wouldn't reccomend for a fully fledged adult as you have no rights.
Yeah, I did it in my early 20's. It's no way of life for an adult with responsibilities.
I hated it even when I was 18. Gave me some good life experience though across a range of dogshit workplaces.
Horrible flashbacks to working in warehouses circa 2006.
Does your wife have any interest in pursuing a career in refuge collection?
I would like to know more about this.
Did a 50 hour week and got sacked for having my hand in the till despite not taking a thing so they’re not paying my wages.
Essentially it is a questionnaire where you have to put answers to scenarios in order of what you think is most likely the right answer to the most unlikely answer, but the answers are very similar so it isn't immediately apparent what order they should be in.
I thought it would be stuff about being punctual or, "How likely are you to be traumatised by a someone jumping on the tracks?"
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